Almighty God, our heavenly Father, let thy protection be upon all those who are in the service of our country; guard them from all harm and danger of body and soul; sustain and comfort those as home, especially in their hours of loneliness, anxiety, and sorrow; prepare the dying for death and the living for your service; give success to our arms on land and sea and in the air; and grant unto us and all nations a speedy, just and lasting peace. Amen.
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Ecclesiological relativism is the logical consequence of the popular anti-sacramental, neo-gnostic understanding of justification by faith that now appears to be dominant in American Christianity. It depends, in other words, on a heresy. According to this popular heresy, we are justified by our internal acts of assent and trust in Jesus, apart from the mediation of the Church. . . .
I strongly believe that the biggest problem within Christianity today is not the debate over Scripture's authority, or abortion, or the challenges of preaching in different cultural contexts, or homosexuality, or the role of women, or power sharing, or how to get traditional moral laws to speak to the unique condition of the modern world: the single biggest problem and the root of countless errors is flawed ecclesiology.